As is well known, this election will start, not end, months or years of probing existential debates for conservatives and liberals. But one trope both sides can discard early is that there is a "Hispanic" vote. As Florida demonstrated, it doesn't exist.
There is a Mexican-American vote, a Puerto Rican vote, and a Cuban-American vote, and so on. Even those are gross generalizations that hide important regional and generational differences. And of course, many members of these groups stubbornly refuse to revert to stereotype. But for the moment these ethnic groups will do.
STATE HOUSE – Now that Massachusetts voters have welcomed legal marijuana to the Bay State and voted to end cannabis prohibition on Dec. 15, attention is turning to implementation of the new law and whether neighboring states will follow Massachusetts' lead.
With 99 percent of the votes counted as of late Wednesday morning, the Associated Press reported Question 4 to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana for adult use passed with support for 54 percent of voters.
